World Rainforest Movement Bulletin: The Copenhagen Accord – the agreement reached by a group of countries at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit and imposed on the rest – was defined by Transnational Institute’s Praful Bidwai as “a travesty of what the world needs to avert climate change’: The two degrees Celsius increase target in global temperature is 0.5 degrees above the target accepted by the majority of UN nations; poor countries are mainly left to fend for themselves in terms of adapting to climate change; and …